They’ve done a small thing at Newcastle’s Training Ground. It might have been Dan Ashworth’s idea, it might not have been. I can’t say for sure. It might not even be a deliberate ‘small thing’, but let me explain what it is and why I like it.
I visited last week to interview Sean Longstaff for the next issue of FourFourTwo magazine. It had been 12 months since I was there last and on that occasion the training centre was a building site. We ended up interviewing a Newcastle first team player in a portakabin adjacent to the main building where the media team were based. The transformation of the club following the Saudi-led takeover was very much underway on and off the pitch.
Fast forward to 2024 and the revamped training ground is buzzing, there was literally an audible hum to the building when I walked through the glass door and into the new, clean, spacious, modern reception. The improvement on the old layout (which felt more like a doctor's surgery) is significant.
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